Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gard Wiggins, adminstrative vice-President said late last night that the University has received the request but as yet has not furnished the information requested. He did not specify the nature of the AEC's inquiry, but said that it was not a security check of CEA personnel...
...spokesman for the AEC said last night that "virtually any research contract recognizes the possibility that classified information could be developed and that if this should happen, legal requirements regarding security classification would come into play...
Trust No One. What mainly messed up Rover was a complicated organizational system that has scattered authority about like confetti. Responsibility for Rover was fuzzily divided between the AEC and NASA. Vital component work was assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there...
...report, AEC urged heavier stress on development of "breeder" reactors, which will create more nuclear fuel than they consume. Present-model nuclear reactors operate through fission of scarce and costly uranium 235. Natural uranium is mostly U-238; less than 1% of it is U-235. Breeder reactors would convert nonfissionable U-238 into fissionable plutonium, or convert the fairly common element thorium into fissionable U-233 (neither plutonium nor U-233 is found in nature). A few days before the 20th anniversary of the first chain reaction, AEC announced that its experimental plutonium reactor had achieved a self-sustaining...
...authorities no longer feel driven to solve the enormously difficult design problems of a nuclear-powered aircraft. But the Pratt & Whitney engineers who sweated over the complexities of the atom plane's engine are still determined to get some sort of nuclear reactor aloft. They are working for AEC now, and last week the commission allowed them to give a glimpse of their top-secret labs...